These age verification laws that are coming into effect have a lot of people really upset. But can we all agree something that children should not be allowed to? Just have free reign on the internet or scroll p*ornhub non-stop in the most darkest and perverted trenches of the internet? I understand you all think that the parent should be solely responsible for this and that’s true to some effect… But we don’t live in a perfect world in many parents are absolute garbage. Many have absolutely zero technological literacy and when it comes to the parental controls that are in place, many of them are wonky or break or absolute crap and prone to failure.

Is it possible that all of us are catastrophizing a little bit when it comes to what these laws are going to do. Many people act like we are going to wake up tomorrow and suddenly be in the middle of North Korea when it comes to our technological use 🤨 can we all simply agree for a moment that it’s not healthy for kids to be going down porn rabbit holes on the internet? Maybe the laws are not a perfect solution, but you wouldn’t be able to walk into a store and buy a bottle of alcohol without some ID. Why is prn any different?

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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    21 days ago

    But we don’t live in a perfect world in many parents are absolute garbage. Many have absolutely zero technological literacy and when it comes to the parental controls that are in place, many of them are wonky or break or absolute crap and prone to failure.

    So instead of making laws that mandate companies make these features better/easier/etc… we should make the internet significantly worse and more dangerous for the other 75% of the planet?

    I have a split-brain DNS system. My young kids are whitelisted to specific school related sites and games that I choose. I NAT rewrite ALL outgoing DNS queries so it hits only my DNS server. And I block all known DoH and other “secure” DNS services. It wouldn’t be hard for an ISP or router manufacturer to setup a system like that, put some polish on it and tie it into their ISP app that they make people install these days. It could be a one click solution. I’m thinking a pop-up from the ISP app when a new device joins the network “What type of device is this?” if they click child apply all the blocks that the parent configured that they want to have block for their kids when they setup the service/router. Hell none of it even needs to call a mothership even. Can pull the same pihole lists that people already generate for this shit.

    Force the companies to provide the solutions for parents to use if they want to. That’s the better answer. Not to mandate age gates everywhere that won’t work anyway.

    Some porn sites were already age gated in that you needed a credit card to access… that shit never worked either. Regardless of the system the government forces, the better answer will always be to give parents more tools with lower thresholds of knowledge to use the tool.